dovecot - Nov 2008 - Namespaces and shared folders

I had a working dovecot install before I tried to implement shared folders
using namespaces.

I added the following to /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:

    namespace private {
    separator     prefix     inbox = yes
    }

    namespace public {
    separator = /
    prefix     location = maildir:/home/public/shared/Maildir
    }
    </pre>

I created my shared folder using the maildirmake command that came with
qmail:

    maildirmake -S /home/public/shared/Maildir
    maildirmake -s write -f online /home/public/shared/Maildir
    chown -R dovecot:shared /home/public/shared
    find /home/public/shared -type d -exec chmod 0777 {} \;
    find /home/public/shared -type f -exec chmod 0666 {} \;

At this point, the online folder shows up as a subscribable folder in
Thunderbird.  I can subscribe to online and I can still access my Inbox. 
But I can't get to any of the folders in my Inbox (Trash, Drafts, etc.).  I
can access these folders if I comment out the namespaces and revert to the
default behavior.

There are no clues in mail.err, mail.info or mail.warn -- the only messages
are the ones written when my client establishes a successful IMAP
connection.

What did I do wrong?

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On F 28 Nov, 2008, at 02:16 , bbell2000 wrote:
>
> I had a working dovecot install before I tried to implement shared  
> folders
> using namespaces.
>
> I added the following to /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:
>
>    namespace private {
>    separator >    prefix >    inbox = yes
>    }
>
I prefer to define everything, even the values that have a default, so  
I would define
location (even if mail_location should apply to the default namespace)  
and the separator.
>     namespace public {
>    separator = /
>    prefix >    location = maildir:/home/public/shared/Maildir
>    }
>    </pre>
Also, you should really have distinct prefix (as stated in the example  
config).
I would specify inbox = no, although this also might be implied.
I suppose that </pre> comes form some forgotten HTML but is not in  
your conf.
g